Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-03

tire force employed in the American wire
works at Cleveland, O., struck Thursday
evening for an advance Of ten Per cent.
in wages.
MRs. LoaAs has selected the center Of
the circle at the north end of South park,
Chicago, for the burial place for herself
and Gen Logan and the site for the mon
ument to Logan
THE convict labor system in Georgia is
more inhuman than the slave system in
its worst days The convicts are mostly
negroes sentenced to long terms Of i'm
prisonment for petty offenses, and they
re worse treated by the contract over
GERS than they we're by the hardest mas
ers before emancipation. It IS reported
that Governor Gordon has set himself
dead against the system as it now exiats.
If he destroys it as slavery was destroyed,
he should also be called an omancipatOr.
ACCORDING 10 the agricultural reporter
VI a I2 hhHbihitHttAlf y AAANANAANN va -
teen TO seventeen bushels an acre in the
yield OF wheat can be claimed TO tho
credit of irrigation in some parts of vic
toria, splendid crops beside the Murray
having been grown on irrigated lands,
whereas there was quite failure in the
same district where irrigation had not
been carried out. Grasshoppers and To-
Gusts have done great deal OF damage
to the Victorian crops during the past
season.
NOVEL case was disposed Of in the
police court at Belleville, Canada, one
morning recently. A baby was the cause
of contention. A Mrs, Keller had cared
for a baby belonging to lady named
Clapper, and was 10 receive certain
monetary consideration for her service.
Mrs. Clapper wanted the child, bat was
unwilling to pay the charges-S8, Mrs
Keller refused to surrender the child until
the money was paid, which caused Mrs.
Clapper TO bring action TO recover the
infant The magistrate ordered The child
to be surrendered to its mother upon the
payment OF the amount claimsd.
STRANGE case of Observation-Disclosures
came to light in the Office of the recorder
of deeds at Washington recently. In
July, 1884 a gentleman had deed made
of record, also of trust Frederick Doug
las at the time being recorder, Subse
quently deed of release was secured,
and Monday the papers were returned
for further record. In examining the
deed it was dated. as of record July is,
1884, ard on the back signed "James g.
Blaine, Recorder OF Deeds" in the hand
writiag of Mr.. Douglass, showing that the
lat5 recorder was at that time absorbed
in mind about the Blaine boom to such
an extent as to write that gentleman's
name where the recorders should have APP
beared
The possibilities OF the art of casting
metals do not appear TO be generally APP
preoiated The introduction of com
preston bronze 10 or 20 years ago, says
the Sanitary Engineer, showed that
metals might be cast in commercial
way with so fine finish that no suisse
quent labor was seeded. A single firm
uses the process in making bronze hard
ware but It has not been generally ih-
trouced, nor used for other metals, Now
process is in operation "a Passaic, N.
j., which produves equally fine work, but
is applicable to brass and other metalo.
1t will ebeaply reproduce copPer-plate
visiting card with sufficient deli,aoy TO
print from, IL can be used for any kind
of ornamental work that is capable OF
being nodded.
TIM phenomenon OF inhammable hu-
man breath is not rare. In one case Of
disordered digestion the patient emitted
indamable gas from the mouth, which
upon analysis, was found TO be largely
composed of marsh gas In another
case the gas Wan sulpheretteu hydrogen
A case is reported in the Baitish Medical
Journal in which, while blowing out a
match, the breath caught Ere with a noise
like the report of pistol, which was loud
enough to awaken his wife. One even
ing, while a confirmed dyspeFtic was
lighting his pipe, an eructstion of gas
from his stomach occurred, and the ig-
nited gas burned moustache and lips.
The origin OF these gases is undoubtedly
the undigested food, which in these cases
undergoes decomposition.
AMONG the fayorite pasumes Of Mrs.
Cleveland, during her hours of leisure
from the demands of her social duties, is
visit to tbs couservotories OF the execu.
two ,unnsfpy, The ,,lpnts nnr1hsr ahDuf